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Friday, February 15, 2013

Review Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection: Field Notes by Dr. Robert Twombly by Don Roff, Chris Lane (Illustrator)

“Zombies, A Record
of the Year of Infection” written by Don Roff and illustrated by Chris Lane is
a book categorized as horror novel, but has no characteristic element of the
genre. There is no novella, no short story, nor documentary.

It’s written as it’s
presented as a diary, as daily notes with illustrations. It’s a very
interesting project, a new and innovative approach to a subject that has been
turned on all sides, an original way to present an old idea. Zombies... the story
of the resuscitated dead who are in search of human flesh was so much used in
books or movies, from the best to the worst, that it is very hard to come up
with a good and innovative idea to attract attention. And this book is just
that: it takes, let say, a classic story and it serves us in a new and attractive
packaging. In the form of a diary kept by a doctor during a zombie apocalypse,
the book describes the events and states that this man went through. There are
brief daily notations accompanied by suggestive drawings of the plague
development and adventures through which the author of the journal went. Compared
to others books the events are not unusual and you will not take part to breathtaking
battles and situations. But precisely from this comes the novelty of the
present story: by putting an ordinary person, with no specific abilities and no
special quality in combat in a truly dramatic situation. Amid the general
insanity, is someone thinking to record the events and facts in which witnessed
or take part of? For whom? Why? But author’s science education obliges him to
write it down. It’s a dry radiograph of a world on the brink of disaster. No
description is stylized, but not too technical either, just the thoughts of a
man trying to survive from one day to another, without manners of a hero, a
normal person like any of us. The end? Hmmm... The last page is splashed with
blood. We clear? No problem, you’ll figure it out.

The book is worth
reading for the novelty that brings to this so used subject of the Living Dead.
The conclusion you will draw each of you.